The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-17
A SUBSTITUTE Fox THE
$4,000.
Which Alderman Rowley Says Will
Cost the Street Is. II. Co. more
than $4,000.

Which Alderman 3owley Says viii
Cost the Street Is. II. Co. moro
than $4,000.
The city council met last night to
consider tho $4,000 franchise which
that body was asking Of the consoli
dated street railway company. 1t was
a substitute ordinance to be consider
ed. Alderman Mahoney was the par
ent of the substitute, and when he
took the costly infant into his arms
and addressed tho council upon the
duty of cherishing and protecting the
"baby,"' exhibited genuine emotion,
The alderman was in 'dead earnest" !"
Alderman Brown champion the rail.
road company. The other aldermen
Clipped in as the leaders progressed
in hot debate. Mahoney felt the gem
uine pride of a victor when vote was
taken and six aldermen voted for his
substitute. His manly bosom swelled
with delight; but Alderman Brown
dashed that cup of joy to the ground,
when he, later on, in the proceedings,
made motion 10 strike out the $4,000
clause. Argument became truly
pathetic at this point. and
as Alderman Mahoney re-
allied that his "pct" was about to be
snatchcd from him and his fond hopes
scattered to the four winds, he said
that this golden opportunity was for
the benefit of the public schools of
Dallas. lie pictured these schools in
a sad condition and in great need of
help-eXcaiming: "Vote against it il
you darew Brown was persistent in
his argument for the company. lie
said it was not the practice of Dallas
to ask bonuses of persons coming to
invest capital, thought 1t mi hit be in
Louisiana where Mr.. Mahoney came
from. Mr.. Loeb offered q substitute
providing that the company grade and
pa"e the streets from curb to curb
where sad streets were not graded
and paved. Alderman Rowley sad
he would vote for that substitute; that
it would cost the company more than
$4,000. The last substitute was
adopted. So it was about draw
game after all Except Mr.. Mahoney
perhaps, that was the point other al
derman who favored the franchise
wanted TO make; it was the cost OF
grading and paving the streets for the
the benefit of the company that they
wanted to avoid.
Besides this the ordinance provides
that the company shall pay the city for
the Vpavcment of the Dallas Street
Railroad on Main street from Syca-
more to the west line of Jefferson, in
cludiug all street intersections, and
the paving tax due said city for paw
ing the space between The rails OF the
Dallas Street Railroad OH Austin
street, from Main street TO Pacific
avenue, including all street intersec-
tions, and shall pay all costs due in the
two cases now pending in the district
court of Dallas county, Texas, brought
respectively by the Dallas City Rail
road and the Dallas Street Railroad
Companies against the city of Dallas,
to restrain said city from collecting
the taxes above mentioned; also all
COSTS due in the case recently brought
in said district court by the Dallas
City Railroad Company to restrain
said city from interieringwit the ex
tension of said company's track from
Austin to jefferson street.
The company must also pay the cost
of paving or macadamizing the space
between the rails of their road bed
upon all streets hereafter TO be paved,
repaved or macadamized.